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Christhood and Adeptship 



A Work Giving the Laws Which Lead To 

Success and Soul Illumination, and Will 

Give the People the Religion They Have 

Been Looking For. 

The Illumination of the Soul. 




BY F. E. GAR1NER 
AND 

DR. R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 



PUBLISHED BY 

THE PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING CO., 

Allentown, Pa. 






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Copyrighted, 1910, by 

DR. R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 

All Rights Reserved. 



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PREFACE. 


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By Dr. T?. Swinbutne Clymer. 




HE MISSION of the present work is some- 
what different from that of others which the 
student may have, in that it is the desire of 
the publishers to accomplish two things. 
jS First, to give yc u instructions which will 

lead you to success and contentment. In 
this it is much along the line of the present New 
Thought, but with a difference. 

Second, to give the reader a religion which he can 
accept and put into practice. 

New Thought, at the present time, has turned nearly 
altogether to the material plane, in that it is simply a 
matter of trying to help people to financial success, and 
seldom do we in these days find any mention at all of 
the Soul, or that which is all in all. 

Men forget that, even though New Thought may 
help them to financial success, very little is accomplish- 
ed for the man of to-day may be the angel of to-mor- 
row. To-day we may be in all our glory, to-morrow 
we may be laid out all in white. 

There is that other success— the greater development 
of the Soul, the finding of the Christ, the becoming of 
an Adept — which, placing us in that same glory to-day 
is, also, our glory on the morrow, even if we should 
have Passed beyond the Veil. 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



The mission of the present book is, therefore, to 
teach you how to succeed on the material plane, and, 
also, how to meet with still greater success on the Soul 
or Spiritual plane. 

Millions of people are demanding a New Religion, 
or rather a new exposition of the Old Religion. These 
people are not satisfied with Spiritualism, for that leads 
to negation — to the loss of both Individuality and Per- 
sonality, these people are not satisfied with New 
Thought, for that leads to Materialism and complete 
loss in the end. In fact, it leads to failure and material- 
ism, as was so fully proven by that glorious leader, 
Helen Wilmans. 

These millions demand a Religion that will meet the 
requirements of the Twentieth Century. In fact, it is a 
demand for a sane Philosophy, a sane Religion, and 
one which, at the same time, reaches the heart as well 
as the head. 

The Coming Church will be the Church of Illumin- 
ation. There is no Creed to the Church. There is 
mighty little of Dogma. It is a religion of the Soul — 
the Illumination of the Heart. 

The present work will fully satisfy this demand as 
no other work can, and if the student desires the full 
benefit of these glorious teachings, he or she, should 
obtain the two books, "The Son of Man" and "The 
Beautiful Philosophy of Life," and he or she will not 
only have a Religion that satisfies the Soul, but a com- 
plete Philosophy, as well as a Moral Law, which no 
force on earth can destroy. 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



Man can be both a financial success on the earth 
plane and to reach Christhood or Adeptship on the 
Spiritual plane. In fact, if he desires to develop truly 
he must succeed on both planes. 

It is true that in some cases suffering may be neces- 
sary before he can attain to this state, but if such is the 
case, then it is well for him to bear it, for then he need 
not fear that he must return upon the earth plane in 
order to live out a bad Karma. Suffering is always but 
the working out of just Laws, and the sooner we go 
through such suffering the better it will be for us. 

To reach Christhood is simply to evolve to a higher 
state. This must be accomplished through Soul devel- 
opment. It is to acquire the capacity to look after 
those lower than ourselves, as you may acquire the ca- 
pacity to look after those whom you employ. 

Says a teacher: "There are two sides to the Universe. 
Between these two sides exist an Opacity called the 
'Veil.' Both sides of this Veil occupy the same space; 
both sides of the Universe, and all aspects, therefore, of 
all things occupy identically the same places and space. 
However, it takes the Soul-developed senses to see and 
sense Soul-things. It takes Spiritual Perception, or In- 
tuition, to perceive Spiritual-things. It takes one who 
is Soul-developed, and with a Spiritual Mind to under- 
stand anything in the Worlds of Soul on the other side 
of the Veil, but who may be right here occupying the 
same places and within the objects of materiality/' 

It is for this reason that a true Religion must be of 
both the Soul and the body. It is for this reason that 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADKPTSHIP. 



instead r of becoming Spiritualized, New Thought has 
become Materialized. This is not to condemn New 
Thought, for it has accomplished great good, but it is 
only to point out its weakness. 

The reader must bear in mind that it is not our 
desire to tear down. On the contrary, we do not wish 
to tear down but to build up. We know that if we 
build upon truth that our structure will stand, while 
those built upon semi-truth or falsehood will fall. 

There is very much in New Thought. In fact, its 
material Laws are founded upon the greatest Truths. 
Its weakness is that it does not consider the Soul as 
greater than the body. 

Eliphas Levi, the great French Master and Kabbalist, 
writing more than a century ago, said: 

"To accomplish anything we must believe in our 
ability to accomplish, and this faith must be at once 
translated into action. Faith has no tentative effort. 
It begins in the certainty of finishing, and works calm- 
ly as though it had omnipotence at its disposal and 
eternity before it. Dare to formulate desire, whatever 
it may be, then set to work immediately, and cease not 
to act in the same manner and for the same end. What 
you wish for will take place, and has already begun for 
you." 

This is really the Great Law that will lead to success 
in both the material and the spiritual. It is only for 
man to Desire, to have Faith, and to WORK with the 
end in view, and success will come. 

Sixtus V. was a poor, ignorant boy, tending sheep. 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



He became Pope. 

Napoleon was low in birth and breeding, but he as- 
cended the throne of France. 

Benjamin Franklin walked the streets of Philadel- 
phia with a roll of bread tucked under his arm, and the 
people laughed at him. They finished by allowing him 
to do their thinking. 

Cyrus W. Field was an imaginary fool, but he was 
able, through persistence, to lay the transatlantic cable. 

Lincoln was the rail-splitter, but he became Presi- 
dent, and it is doubtful whether there has ever been a 
man more honest or more honored. 

These were the men who Desired to do things, who 
had Faith in themselves, and who were WILLING to 
be LAUGHED at, WILLING to SUFFER in order that 
they might prove the truth of the things they advoca- 
ted. 

The opportunities of the present day are as great as 
they were in the years gone by. It is simply a ques- 
tion as to whether you DESIRE to do things, whether 
you DARE to stand by your convictions, and whether 
you are WILLING to SUFFER and to WORK in or- 
der to succeed. 

Fraternally yours, 

DR. R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 



10 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



THE CHRIST. 




CHAPTER ONE 



THE CHRIST. 



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HEN Jesus asked His disciples, "Whom say ye 
that I am ?" Peter answered and said, "Thou 
art the Christ, the son of the Living God." 

And Jesus answered: "Blessed art thou, for 

flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, 

but my Father which is in Heaven." 

Flesh and blood cannot reveal the Christ to man. It is 

Spirit WITHIN, and this is the idea that the Master gave 

to all those who were capable of understanding. 

To know the Christ, to demonstrate the Christ, is given 
only when man becomes conscious of, and in unity with, 
his Spiritual selfhood. 

For hundreds of years orthodox religious teachers have 
become so embued with bigotry and false knowledge until 
the true idea of the Christ has been lost sight of. Knowl- 
edge and much learning does not always give man the 
Spiritual understanding which his soul craves. 

Christ as THE SON OF GOD dwells in all. Christ is 
not a being, a deified form of being. Christ is the true con- 
ception of being, of what constitutes God. 

Jesus' works alone were not the cause of His fame and 
notoriety at that time. It was the idea He taught and dem- 



12 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

onstrated. The prophets had healed diseases and raised the 
dead. Great works had been accomplished in every gen- 
eration, but no man preached divinity WITHIN man. 

No man had ever lived before who demonstrated that 
man is responsible unto himself for his own misdeeds and 
sinning. This truth could not be manifested or revealed by 
flesh and blood, but only through Divine revelation. 

Man, in order to know the Christ and its Power, must 
come into Consciousness with his INNER self. Jesus Him- 
self came into Supreme Consciousness of being only in 
His last state of incarnation. We are told He was "like as 
we are, but without sin." He met with the same tempta- 
tions, and was under the same laws. Is anything plainer 
than this ? He gave us a hope, also, that man may over- 
come much Karma, and step out into the aura of Unity 
with Divinity if he so will it, and will not be overcome in 
his progress by the laws of the flesh, which is continually 
endeavoring to hold him back. The Mind is that Spark 
of Divinity which is evolved through material conception. 
This small speck of creation is drawn into the aura of those 
minds which are in harmony with its own. At conception 
it begins to build itself a body to dwell in, and throughout 
the body it sends the electrical or magnetic currents, which 
is the Soul, but is not the Spirit. 

The spirit is the tiny speck from the Great Spirit-Crea- 
tor. Man's spirit itself is a Creator. 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 13 

It creates for him his every desire. Every thought he 
draws to him or gives out is a created thing — a current or 
vibration. We can feel them but not see them, but we can 
see their manifestations. For instance, if he loves, he man- 
ifests love, and we see it in his movements, his voice, his 
eyes. 

Hate, also, is as forcibly manifested, and all these thoughts 
are formed into an aura or vibration which emanates from 
the body, and they have power to build up or destroy. 

Jesus taught this principle of Truth. He taught men 
the mighty force of Love, Unity, and good fellowship. He 
taught men that only from good works could they reap a 
good harvest. His idea of Divinity, His daily ministra- 
tions proved it to be Love, Understanding, and Purity. 
We cannot lie to our spirit. Every vibration sends forth 
a record of each deed, good or bad, which we commit. 
Love of Truth, of God-likeness, of beneficence to our fel- 
lowmen, opens the door to the Unfoldment of the Christ 
WITHIN us. Every vibration accumulated and concen- 
trated bears fruit of its own kind. 

Every human being has a part of Divinity WITHIN 
him. It is his spirit, his own Creator, the speck that crea- 
ted him, and through every day of his life is still creating. 
All that we live in or draw to us we have created. We 
create hope, happiness, pleasure, goodness, and truth, or 
we create the opposite. Thus is man the creator of his 



14 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP, 



own destiny, and to a certain extent of others. The spirit 
reveals only in proportion to its size. When the soul is 
evil, dwarfed, crippled by envy, jealousy, hate, and mal- 
ice, the manifestation of Spirit, God, is very small. 

The dwarfed, mishappen soul is far worse than the mis- 
happen body. It is better for a man to enter the kingdom 
of heaven halt and blind physically than to go to hell phys- 
ically perfect. 

As the Christ begins to develop, the Soul draws upon 
every vibration of good, Truth, Love, and Wisdom, in the 
Universe. 

"Know ye not that ye are the temples of the living 
God?" 

Know ye not fhat WITHIN yourself is a Divine spark 
of the Creator-God, and that the body has been builded 
by a tiny spark which is evolving around toward a greater 
body and greater soul? This Divine Spark is the Christ 
WITHIN, and by constant effort and pure thoughts of 
love, wisdom, and gentleness, unites ALL in its develop- 
ment. 

That man beside you, he may be a hog, but he sprang 
from the same source you did. You are his brother. He 
bears your likeness, as you bear the likeness of your Crea- 
tor. Hence God is no respector of persons. God creates 
perfection. God the Christ is in constant creation of Good, 
Love and Truth, As man begins his steps towards the 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 15 

Christ, he finds many Judas Iscariots ready to tear down 
every good work. Every vibration is crossed by material 
or fleshy demands. Therefore, it is better for him to be 
protected and guarded by those who know and who un- 
derstand how to guide him over the pitfalls. 

The Master protected His own with power of Himself. 
How carefully were the eleven guarded even in the mo- 
ment of His greatest of struggles and His laying down of 
life. 

We know not what manner of spirit we are of until the 
Christ metes out judgment or punishment. It dwells there 
ever WITHIN, a faithful watchman of his own, even 
though the tiny spark is almost lost, and He is there al- 
ways even unto the end, and the end is what each individ- 
ual creates for himself. 

Vain words and pretenses can never develop the Divine 
spark into a Christ. 

Love unto all the stumbling, striving, struggling crea- 
tures is the beacon light that fills the long dark valley with 
its rays, and draws unto itself greater Light, greater Peace 
and greater Power and Plenty, making Sons of God and 
Creators of worlds uncreated. The Christ is the true, the 
perfect, supreme man of God, the Creator of Goodness 
and Truth. 



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CHAPTER TWO. 



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VERY man brought to earth and made flesh has 
at least a spark of the Divine WITHIN him. 

There is scarcely a human being who cannot 
love, and love is the brightest flame of the Di- 
vine. 

The great love nature of many is their weak- 
ness, but this weakness can be made a power for goodness 
through proper development. 

When Jesus stood by the well at Sychar and asked a 
drink of the Samaritan woman, He recognized the power 
that led her into sin could be made the power of righteous- 
ness. And we understand how she transferee! her great 
vibrations of love into doing good and what she accomp- 
lished. The flame of Divinity, which had been abused and 
misdirected, accomplished more than the combined efforts 
of all the disciples, because all the people of Samaria knew 
what manner of woman she was, and the great change it 
wrought within her made them believe. 

The soul of man in the beginning is Divine. It is drawn 
from the Creator, and eventually, after many stages of 
evolution, finds its way to a higher estate within man. The 
Divine soul, in its awakened Consciousness, throws off its 



18 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

earth likeness and takes on the spiritual. The desires of 
the flesh, the fascination of the material beautiful, wears 
off, and beneath its mesh he sees and knows the Soul- 
beautiful. 

Through development the soul is able to manifest its 
spiritual likeness. All pretense, all subterfuge and petty, as 
well as bold hypocrisy is thrown out, torn out by the roots 
and the real likeness, the beautiful spiritual realnessis man- 
ifest. 

Souls are what are needed to-day. Divine, Loving, Un- 
derstanding Souls. 

In development we are able to see ourselves as we are. 
When the INNER Voice begins to question; when it de- 
mands an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, we tremble 
and know wherein we have failed. 

Souls are created by the Giver of All Life. 

God "breathed the breath of life into man and he be- 
came a living Soul." 

There is a tiny Divine spark in every living thing. It is 
the Breath of Life, the Creator, and the speck either grows 
larger, bigger and more in the Image of its Creator, or it 
retrogrades and is swallowed up by the grosser elements of 
the flesh. 

All is vibration, and vibration comes from heat or fire. 
Even the grossest elements of matter contain certain kinds 
of heat, or electrical and magnetic vibrations or currents, 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 19 

While the Divine in man is small, it is mighty, and is 
capable of purifying the gross element of flesh. When the 
desire for purity, truth and love is strong and firm within 
mind, the gross electrical flame is consumed and destroyed 
by the Divine. But the gross flesh cannot destroy the Di- 
vine. The Divine must grow, must create, must develop. 
If the gross overcomes the Divine, it is thrust apart, the 
soul is rent in twain, and that which is evil is thrown into 
the great melting pot of Nature, while the atom, the Di- 
vine that remains, is gathered back to the Creator and is 
compelled to go through another evolutionary journey. 
This is the second death, but "He that overcometh shall not 
be hurt of the second death." 

When man begins to develop Divinity, he straightway 
begins to live it. It is not given in words, for words are 
but vain things, and the devil quotes more Scripture and 
uses the most subtle and fair speech of any. 

"He that saith I know Him, and Keepetb Not His Com- 
ments, is a liar and the Truth (God) is not in him." "He 
that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk 
even as He walked." 

Love, Tenderness, Goodness, and Truth, are four great 
essentials for development of the Divine IN man. Walk 
as He walked, and He dwelleth WITHIN. 

"It does not yet appear what we shall be; but we know 



20 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we 
shall see him as he is." 

Thus, when the Christ, which is the Divine, shall appear 
to us, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as a pure 
White Flame of Fire WITHIN the soul of us. We must 
walk as he walked. We must be judge of ourselves, our 
own acts, our words, our life we live, for "God is Spirit, 
and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth." True wor- 
ship, which is true development, cannot be manifested any 
other way to the soul itself. We have power to judge, to 
know ourselves. We are a small world, capable of evolv- 
ing into great realms, or we can be destroyed by our own 
selves. 

Right thinking, right living, and concentrated effort are 
vibrations of power, unity, and truth. 

We must be the Creator of our own destiny as well as 
the Master. The star that glimmers in the distance may 
grow into the light of day — the day that dawns WITHIN 
the soul, and lights the space and the realms of darkness 
into eternal beams of Truth. 

When we love a person or a thing dearly, we manifest 
this love in every conceivable way. 

We never tire doing for those we love. 

When the soul awakens from its Adam dream, which is 
the dream and delusion of the flesh, it begins to love good- 
ness more than evil, truth more than hypocrisy and pre- 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 21 

tense. It begins to manifest that love by doing everything 
within its power to farther truth and righteousness. 

It is man's by right of inheritance. He is what he Wills 
to be. He attains what he Wills 'Jo attain. 

There are thousands of vibrations floating in the Ether- 
sphere of human mind constantly. They are daily draw- 
ing and storing up energy of the same elements which they 
are composed of, and are transferring them to every recep- 
tive individual in the universe. The good are daily dis- 
tinguished from the bad, and can be used in harmony with 
our own vibrations. If we desire the good, we have only 
to develop along those lines to be able to draw upon and 
store up the forces and vibrations from all good minds. 
The Divine is attained through the development of these 
forces, and learning how to draw them, and he immediate- 
1\ demonstrates the invisible Christ in his every-day life. 

Swedenborg says that the "Witt makes the man, and 
Thought only so far as it proceeds from the Will; and deeds 
or works proceed from both." Hence it follows that the 
will, or love, is the man himself, for the things which pro- 
ceed belong to that from which they proceed. 

To proceed is to be produced and presented in suitable 
form, so as to be perceived and seen (manifested). There- 
fore, when man becomes a Christ, when he begins to de- 
velop that small spark of Divine Flame, it is produced and 
presented so as to be preceived and seen. ■ 



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CHRISTHOOD AND ADKPTSHIP. 



You must analyze yourself and see yourself just as you 
are (your real self), and not as others think you are, nor 
as you idealize yourself and think you would like to be. 
Then place yourself under discipline, and follow the in- 
structions of the Masters, and' the illumination will mark 
your way and make it plain and unerring in the way He 
walked before you. 




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CHAPTER THREE. 



■DEVELOPMENT. 



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RUE spiritual development is Soul Growth. 
No one has power to develop into the great 
realms of Truth until he has perfected himself 

a through right living and soul training. 
There is a wrong idea concerning develop- 
ment among certain classes. Some think de- 
velopment is attained by becoming negative and going 
under the control of a disembodied spirit. This is a grave 
mistake. Control is not development. Development is 
GROWTH. Growth is not to grow dwarfed, and twist- 
ed, and misshapen. It is to grow into the fulness of Life, 
Light and Being. It is the attainment of at-one-ment with 
the Christ. 

It is the attainment of that which is above. 
It can be attained by all who are willing to obey the laws, 
not of man* but of the Truth. 

In the beginning the Creator created the laws of Life and 
Righteousness. These laws hold through all time. They 
always were, and always will be. They are the same laws 
that developed Nature to perfection and beauty, and one 
needs only to conform to those laws to attain perfection 
and Soul Development, 



24 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

From the time that the Word became flesh the laws of 
evolution, or development, have remained unchanged and 
invincible — invincible because they are just and right, and 
man does not suffer when he obeys them, but only when 
he disobeys. 

To dis-obey brings sure and severe punishment. To 
obey brings all that heart can desire and soul may attain. 
The desire for development is the first step towards its at- 
ment. 

Man "shall not live by bread alone, but by EVERY word 
of the living God." Therefore, it demands certain requir- 
ments. The first is desire. 1 he desire of every man's heart 
is for the best. Material mortal man, through groping and 
stumbling in the dark, blindly snatching at opportunity for 
advancement on his own plane of the physical, desires to 
live. He would live on and on in his old environments if 
he can lengthen out his days into many years. This desire, 
even for material existence, is but the cry of the hungry 
soul striving for recognition and development. When you 
respond to that cry, you have made the first step towards 
development. Even during the first stage of unfoldment, 
the soul rids itself of all pretense, affectation and frivolities 
of a physical life. As it emerges into unity it becomes more 
uniform and natural and real. Its desire is to cultivate the 
Divine PLAN OF LIFE and Being, but, as we draw near- 
er, we can distinguish the false from the real, and the mys- 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 25 

tery is still a greater mystery, even though we begin to 
travel a part of the net that covers its deeper meaning. 

The Soul, as it evolves upward, draws to itself the as- 
sistance of all in harmony with it. There is a meaning, 
and a tenderness, heretofore unknown in the air we beathe, 
in the sunlight that falls in natural golden rays across our 
path, in the lightning's flash that, for the moment, bursts 
aside a veil of darkness and allows us a glimpse of some- 
thing too deep for man to discern, unless he is one who 
who knows. 

No one should attempt to develop alone. 

There are dangers in the path of development, and un- 
less one is protected by the thoughts and forces of those 
who have overcome the dangers and pitfalls, he is apt to 
meet with failure, and, what is worse, obsession. 

As we strive onward, there are others who would hold 
us back. Even Peter, the right-hand disciple, was not im- 
mune, for did not the Master say to him on one occasion, 
"Satan hath desired thee, Simon Bayona." 

The physical body finds it difficult to expand and grow 
into the shape and beauty of the soul, and, for this reason, 
it retards the progress until brought into complete subjec- 
tion. The true development is not as taught by many who 
have not the real mysteries, nor have they been taught by 
the Masters. Development is not being able to become 
passive and negative, and then becoming receptive to any 



26 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

knowledge that comes along. This is the line usually 
taught, but Jesus tells us to "subdue all things," but not to 
be subdued. 

True development is acquired by subjecting all things 
beneath us, and growing into higher, by continued positive 
thoughts and right living. When we attain a certain plane 
all that it can give is ours to have, and all the knowledge 
within its borders flows to us. It is ours by right of con- 
quest. It is the reward for faithful and earnest efforts. 
After having attained all that these forces can give, we 
must go on, for knowledge is limitless. No man knows 
it all. 

It is the duty of the Order to protect, assist in govern- 
ing, and guide all students into the safe paths of develop- 
ment. The Masters know the student's mind, his weak- 
nesses, his strength, and are bound by the most sacred 
obligations to assist and strengthen him through his initia- 
tion. 

Man— soul and body— is the Temple of the Infinite Spir- 
it, and in him are etheric atoms belonging to all the spirit- 
ual states and spaces, some active and some latent. It is 
necessary to understand the laws of vibration, of concen- 
tration, accumulation, and transference, to attain absolute 
harmony and intercourse with the forces of certain states 
that dwell in certain spaces. The Order has understood 
these laws from time immemorable, and no other school 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 27 

guards and protects its students with the care and watch- 
fulness of the /Eth Brotherhood. 

When man began to learn certain laws, he began to abuse 
them, and there are many in the world to-day who care 
nothing what happens to the student so long as they pay. 
Some teachers are absolutely faithless to their trust, and 
are more harmful then beneficial. 

To be able to produce a phenomena is a sign all should 
beware of, for no good comes of it, and much harm can 
be done. 

The soul must be instructed and trained with extreme 
care. The house must be purified, the evil mind cleaned 
from evil thoughts, to send out pure, wholesome, healthful 
vibrations, and these thought vibrations will lift the soul 
up where the world is cleaner and better to live in. The 
mind, which is the electrical unit of the soul, sends out the 
very substance that nourishes or destroys both body and 
soul. Hence, the mind is the beginning, the first floor to 
cleanse of all its rubbish. Each student is surrounded by 
all the clean, wholesome vibrations from the White Broth- 
erhood of the Order, and by contributing to his strength 
he is assisted over the tides of darkness and temptation, 
and is enabled to gain what he could not attain alone and 
unguarded. 

Conscious efforts repeatedly concentrated into real, ac- 
tual desire, accumulates rapidly as the soul wings on its 



28 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

way, and the transference of these mighty forces into the 
heavenly realms insures the student the unveilment of the 
mighty beams of Truth, the mysteries which were hidden 
from the ages, the problem of being which baffles the 
men of learning of all times and of to-day, are simplified 
and easily understood. 

Development alone is the saving grace of the soul. 

Only through its intricate but simple way, when once 
learned, can one attain the highest state given to man to 
attain. 




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CHAPTER FOUR. 


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FOWMOLOGY. 




VERY individual has an ideal, a standard, a prin- 
ciple which he wishes to attain. It may be that 
his ideal does not lift him upward to any great 

M extent, but it does lift him above himself. In 

U the building of an ideal, the mind and will are 
focussed, or concentrated, upon an idea, or 
thought, or in channels which lead to an ultimate point or 
idea. 

We never see the false side of our ideals. 

Only the beautiful, the desirable picture is formed and 
held in contemplation. No man ever bowed to an idol of 
clay knowingly. The beautiful side of his god was pre- 
sented, and this called forth his admiration, love and de- 
votion. 

Whatever the mind concentrates upon, that it creates. 
The one thought gathers and accumulates to itself the 
thoughts which surround it, and thus it forms a large and 
more realistic vision. 

It is forming, holding, moulding, and giving birth to a 
something that steadily draws him in its wake. The mind 
is the electrical center, the womb, of all created ideals. 
Within itself it holds the unseen forces of Power, of For- 



30 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



mation that gives life, and strength, and reality, to every 
dream. 

The dreamer steeped with visions of his own power, 
greatness,and fame draws upon these forces and builds his 
ideal stronger. Every hope is centered there. Physical 
labor is a machine to carry him on to the realization of 
his dream. 

As force creates force, perfection creates perfection, so 
does mind create mind, soul creates soul, as well as matter 
creates matter, and it all takes definite form, evolving into 
stronger and more compact shape. Then the ideal fits into 
the material and becomes whatever the mind wills, physi- 
cal, mental, or Adeptship. The building of thoughts leads 
up to Mastership or Adeptship. When man realizes the 
power and force of mind, and when he uses those forces 
to bring forth, he places himself in line with Creators or 
Adepts, and so eventually attains all the forces and power 
for which his soul has yearned. Gathering of forces, ac- 
cumulating energy is the power that all men seek. 

WITHIN EVERY MIND dwells an ideal, or a picture of 
some desire. The ideal may be a trifling seed, an acorn, 
but the bare fact of its being there proves its desire, and its 
capability to grow. As it grows and expands, it creates 
and demands energy and response. 

Within Nature's great storehouse is a vast amount of 
energy, life, force, power, and strength to utilize and ac- 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 31 

cumulate. 

When we fail to live up to the idea 1 , we mar 
its likeness and our chances of attainment. It is possible 
for man to attain every ideal. It is possible to grow to 
become what we WILL. 

Concentration unlocks the door of the strongest, and 
makes us masters of our dreams. To WILL a thing Con- 
sciously and in understanding sets in motion certain laws 
that become our masters or our slaves. 

Mastership comes only throngh long and arduous train- 
ing. It is the determination to attain the desire, the thing 
that makes happy. 

As the potter moulds the clay, so may the Master mould 
the Will, and is able to calm storm-tossed seas, and dem- 
onstrate true Magic. 

The Magician spends hours, days, weeks, months and 
years in absolute perfect training to attain his ideah— his 
Adeptship. If he never accomplishes anything, it is because 
he never attempted anything. He did not hold fast. He 
did not work, accumulate, and wisely transfer his energy 
and force. 

Napoleon always gathered his forces together. He nev- 
er allowed a moment to be idly wasted. He moulded and 
builded as he planned and his ideal was empires. Herein 
was his power. He knew how to direct and use his forces 
so as to gain results. Only the blind ignorant go through 



32 CHRISTHO'OD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

life without purpose, like drift wood washing the shores of 
strange seas. 

Goodness gives power and knowledge, and assists men 
to attain greater heights. The building of a bridge, of a 
palace or a cottage is but the forming and building of an 
idea, or ideal. On the physical plane everything is mould- 
ed or created in conformity to the mind that draws it. Ev- 
erything is created in harmony with itself. The pure does 
not conform or harmonize with the impure. Hence it is 
impossible for anything to be formed or created out of the 
law of harmony. Every law builds another law, thus it 
is that every ideal builds ideals in conformity to itself or its 
. law. 

No one ever built up anything standing still. There is 
more power in action than in anything else. The active 
mind constantly accumulating, planning, building up an 
ideal or dream. The inactive mind is stagnant. It is like 
the slimy stagnant pool of water that breeds a host of evils 
and disease. 

The ideal mind is active. It gathers more activity and 
so is able to progress on toward Mastership and power. 

The great law of the JEth Brotherhood is work and ac- 
tivity. 

To build up for perfection every grain of thought force 
and energy must be used. The great power of the Hindus 
lies in constant accumulation of thought force, the energet- 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 33 

ic, live, concentrated force thought or mind. It is a sim- 
ple law, as simple as the a, b, c, but it is mighty. 

Half the people in the world, and even a greater major- 
ity, are daily charging themselves with electrical, or mag- 
netic, vibrations that tear down instead of building up. 
Their desire may be to attain perfection or adeptship, but 
through ignorance or varied weaknesses they destroy in- 
stead of creating. The great teachers and masters have 
understood and operated these laws hundreds of years be- 
fore these laws were known to the people. 

It did not center for the first time in the philosophies or 
the Vedas of the Hindus, nor was Confucius the origina- 
tor of any of these laws. They sprung from the begin- 
ning, from the gods of creation, and were given to man 
when the first beams of Truth began to break upon his 
sorded, fleshy imbued mind. 

As long ago as the time when Lemurian shadows drap- 
ed the evening twilight in purple, heliotrope and crimson 
gold, have these Mystic laws of Truth built up in gradual 
fold the ideals of perfection and adeptship. 

Any man can become Master of what he wills, if he will 
obey these laws that were given from the gods, and the 
laws with which nature moulds and creates the master- 
pieces of sunset, sky and range, which no artist's hand has 
yet been able to rival. 

Man is not the slave of circumstances entirely. He is the 



34 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



master of his soul, the maker of his own laws, the creator 
of his destiny. He may become the idol of his own Ideal, 
and through the Great Law of White Magic, which is the 
knowledge and wisdom of all the old world sages, is able 
to attain true Adeptship or Christhood. 

To be sure, working in a world where Laws are usually 
misused, he may be forced to suffer persecutions and pro- 
secutions, but if he holds fast to his Ideals he will become 
the hero of such persecutions and future ages bow down 
to his memory. Such afe the Immortals. 




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CHAPTER FIVE. 



THE POWET{ OF LOVE. 



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HE POWER of Love is limitless. It is the most 
beautiful, the most powerful, and the most 
abused of anything in the world. Love alone 
can accomplish that which nothing else can. It 
is the Key which unbars the gates of Heaven. 
It has reigned supreme of all emotions, all 
thought, and will so reign unto the end. History gives 
divers instances where men and women have given life for 
love. It is the power that places them above suffering, 
and tries his strength for the loved one's sake. All the 
world understands love and its power. The great love of 
Damon and Pythias has made such a beautiful record in 
history of time that it is ineffable. 

These two men were philosophers of the Pythagorean 
school, and they lived in the time of Dionysius, the tyrant 
of Sicily. Their love for each other was so strong that 
they were ready to die for each other. Damon was con- 
demned to death by Dionysius. He obtained permission 
to go to his own country to settle his affairs before death 
on condition that his friend Pythias should consent to be 
imprisoned in his stead, and put to death for him if he did 
not return before the day of his execution, The attention 



36 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

of everyone, even the tyrant himself, was excited to the 
highest piich, as every one was curious to see what would 
be the outcome of so strange an affair. 

The time was almost gone and Damon did not appear, 
but the friend in prison declared that he would return. 
Pythias did not betray the least doubt or anxiety, and how 
well he knew, for Damon came in due time, and surrender- 
ed himself to his fate, while he did not desire to escape by 
leaving his friend to suffer in his place. Such fidelity and 
love softened the savage heart of the tyrant. He pardoned 
the condemned one, and gave the two friends to each oth- 
er, and begged them to give him a place in their affection. 

True love can soften the heart of the most savage, and 
the true philosopher realizes this when he begins to under- 
stand what it is to love. 

Whatever man loves best he has POWER TO AT- 
TAIN. 

It may be wealth, fame, power, peace, or spirituality, 
but whichever vibration is the stronger has the drawing 
power toward the thing loved. 

Love was the whole secret of the Master's power. 

Nothing ever existed without love. It is the Creating 
principle of ALL life. It is demonstrated on every hand. 
You have but to look about you daily and see the power 
and force of Creating Love. 

Has God any other seat than the earth, the sea, in the 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 37 

air, and the heavens and the virtues? Beyond these, why 
do you look for God? Whatever you see, He is in it. 
Wherever you move, He is there. 

Behold the power of Love. All around you, you see it 
manifesting its strange unexplainable Mysteries, and show- 
ering its spirit outward and onward, for Love is God, and 
the power of Love is God-power. This is the Holy Spirit 
— the Divine Comforter which Christ said should come. 

We know love only as we manifest it. 

When Self dies we begin to know that Love is and of 
what it is created. 

The poet tells us that — 

"Love took up the harp of life and smote on all 

the chords with might; 
Smote the chords of Self, that trembling, passed 

in music out of sight." 

Love of SELF has great power. There is nothing we 
will not risk or venture for self, yet this self-love is poison 
to the Soul. It is the thing that can destroy, and does de- 
stroy, but the Divine Love gives us the desire and the 
power to lift ourselves from the blackness and slime of the 
earth-pits to the beautiful realms of Spiritual Power. 

Do you realize WITHIN yourself slumbers two genii- 
one evil and one good? 

Have you ever reckoned upon the greatness of the love 
of self? or love of the good? 



38 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

One, the first, belongs to the force of Might — the black 
brother who seeks to draw men away from true power and 
development. This love is to destroy. 

The second belongs to the force of Light — to the gods 
who seek to benefit men and all things living. This love 
is to assist upward. 

You have WITHIN yourself the power of either love. 
In development it is soon made manifest which side you 
are on. 

They tell us that Atlantis is recarnating. That means 
good and bad, and the evil forces are uniting and creating 
with the power to destroy, as the great continent was de- 
stroyed ages ago. 

Every individual born into earth existence is so born by 
the Force of love, either of the good or black, and their 
attendant good and evil forces are born with them. Does 
it not make you shudder to think of this? Which side are 
you on — which do you wish? It is possible for you to 
know. It is possible for you to learn. It is also the de- 
sire of yourself to place yourself on the safe side, for every 
one wants to be on the safe side. Therefore, study the 
nature, the force, and the power of your desires, whether 
they be for good or evil. The love of Truth will draw you 
to Truth. If you really love and if you desire with all 
your soul you can become a power for good. 

Love makes us greater and stronger. Love gives usun- 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 39 

derstanding, when nothing else will. The Kingdom of 
Heaven is Love. The Throne of Christ is Love. 

All things are possible with Love. IT NEVER FAILS. 
"And though I understand all mysteries, and all knowl- 
edge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove 
mountains, and have not LOVE, I am nothing." 

The greatest of the Apostles tells us that "He was one 
who loved much, and who had the greatest power." 

There is a power in Love that a few know, few realize. 
There is a mystery hidden deep, "hidden from generation 
and from ages,'" which gives the power of angels to those 
who truly love. 

It unlocks the strong barred doors to all knowledge. It 
is man's to know and to have it if he wills it. Through 
the development of the Love forces man is enabled to ere- • 
ate worlds. Many teachers have sought long winding 
paths to find this deeper mystery, the veiled Isis, but there 
were few who loved enough to find it." 

Do you wish to know? This is the mystery "kings and 
prophets have desired to know and knew not." 

Paul tells us "For this cause shall a man leave his father 
and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife and they 
two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak 
about Christ and the Church." 

There is a deeper meaning in this verse of Scripture than 
the materialists can discern, but there are those who read 



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and know. 

There is no .power greater than Love. It can surmount 
all obstacles. It can give life and create worlds. The se- 
cret of the power is yours to have if you will go the way. 

It is mighty in its sublimity, for it reaches to the inner- 
most throne of God. Many have attempted to thrust aside 
the veil, the veiled Isis, but few have really done so. 

Why? 

Because few love. 

The mind is the electrical center of the Soul. The Soul 
is what the mind is, and is formed and created by mind. 
We stand now on the earth plane, where our minds cling 
to the the things of earth, when we love and desire the 
physical and material life. 

Our power is manifested in our desires and love, for we 
ARE what we desire and love. 

Man begins to develop. His mind probes into the "Se- 
cret places of the Most High." He reaches out for great 
understanding, and he LOVES according to his understand- 
ing. The electrical center is re-charged with higher vibra- 
tions, and his electrical current spreads out and reaches 
further forward. His power grows as he becomes enlight- 
ened. His love is manifested in what he does. He writes 
the words that inspires men and leads them to seek a high- 
er goal. 

He speaks the words that thrill to the soul, and feed 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 41 

with bread of life the starving spirit. 

He heals the sick with the touch of the hand, for he 
knows how to draw upon the electrical center, and send 
out currents of healing, blessing, strength and life. 

Mental healers have done many mighty works, but they 
are limited. Few know that in the great Mystery of Love 
there is a secret which gives power unlimited. This was 
; the secret of Jesus' power. This is the Christ perfected. 

It is possible to know. It can be given to those who 
desire to know and go the way. It repays all those who 
will obey, for the "things which are impossible with men 
are possible with God," and to know the great Love Mys- 
tery puts one in closest harmony with the Law of God, 
nd lifts above men and earth. 

Love is the Key which unlocks all doors of Spaces and 
Powers, and the Kingdom of Heaven, and the power of 
such love is limitless, boundless, for it makes Gods of men 
and gives them power to Create. 

These hidden mysteries are revealed only to the sincere, 
earnest seeker. 

There are invisible vibrations all around us, and these 
vibrations are life, or what produces life. Life is produced 
only through the power of love. These vibrations support 
the earth. They encircle it, produce it, and surges through 
it, above it and below it and everywhere. Mesmer says 
that there is a similarity of Magnetism in heavenly bodies, 



42 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

the earth, and the animal body. If they are similar, they 
harmonize and accumulate together all Life Forces, and 
are constantly concentrating and transferring back and 
forth, each supporting, strengthening and nourishing the 
other. This is Magnetism. It is Magnetism that produces. 
There is a magnetism in Love. Magnetism is Vibration. 
These vibrations can be felt but not seen. They draw and 
attract; hence the Love Magnetism is stronger and has 
more Force, because Love attracts quicker than anything 
else. There is more Magnetism produced by the Love 
Forces than by any other kind. Magnetism is attraction. 
We are attracted to some people through friendship. We 
like them, and will do much to benefit and aid them. We 
are attracted to some people through pity. 

The physical beauty of some attracts, and the mentality 
of others. All these forces contain a certain amount of 
Magnetism or attraction, but their powers are not long 
lived. But when the Magnetic flow of Love dominates us 
then the powers of the Universe are ours to have if we but 
know how to accumulate and concentrate and transfer 
this Force. 

Why are some persons more beautiful than others? 
Why are some mishappen, or crooked, and dwarfed from 
birth? Have you ever thought for a moment that there 
might be a reason for such afflictions and deformations? 

Some one transgressed the Law of Love — its power was 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 43 

limited and abused. Do you know who did it? There 
are a few who know. Many are ignorant. In fact, but 
few know what Love is, what it is to love and and the 
power of Love. Yet, the dullest and bluntest, yea, the 
most stupid will tell you that the Creator is God — Love. 
But they do not know that the Creator exists in Love and 
gives Love the power to Create. 

Have you ever created anything? You love what you 
create. You give it all your power, you magnify it, you 
beautify it, you produce all its most perfect traits, and you 
do so because your love for that thing gives you the pow- 
er to do so. 

The love of a man's heart gives him power to produce 
whatever that love creates WITHIN him. Watch your 
neighbor. Find out his greatest love, and you will discov- 
er where his power lies. 

And watch his power, and you will find where he loves, 
for "where the treasure is there will be the heart also." 

Perhaps its money. The love for money gives him the 
power to create money. The mind leads. Mind is the 
Creator, the Creator of all thought and desire. These 
. thoughts and desires unfold and manifest the mind. The 
desire, or love, hidden WITHIN the mind's Center is what 
gives power to produce, or create. 

If a man is selfish, he lavishes all his thoughts on him- 
self. He creates and produces for self, because there is 



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CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



where his love is centered and his power is selfish love. 

Love for money, home, country, children, worldly 
goods, or fame, gives the power to create the thing desired. 
Authors spend hours and labor indefatigably to produce 
the idea their minds have created. 

They have the power according to their love. 

All men are Creators. They love what they create. And 
their love gives them power to create. 

No matter what it is, good or bad. 




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CHAPTER SIX 



CHRIST ANTD OSIRIS. 



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H'JRCHANITY has universally held that the 
Bible is the authentic history of the Word of 
God. 

DThe Bible has been pointed out for ages as 
The One Book, and men have sealed vows by 
kissing it in reverence and tenderness, and yet 
these men would hold up their hands in holy horror were 
one to even suggest that they worshipped the Bible as a 
book, and not as the inspired history of God. 

And yet they narrowly declare that the Eg\ ptians wor- 
shipped the Sun as the Sun, and will not accord them 
justice when it is fully explained that in worshiping the 
Sun they worshipped not the symbol any more than Chris- 
tians worship the Bible, but the REAL Spiritual Sun of 
all ages, and which they called Osiris. Osiris was the One 
God, the great unknowable Being who created the heavens 
and the earth and all that is in them, and the worship is 
identical with the idea of Christ as taught by Jesus. 

To the Osirians the sun represents the Light, the Life- 
God. And this "was the true Light which lighted every 
man that cometh into the world." The sun to the Egpy- 
tians meant far more than the ordinary light, They knew 



46 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

the Mystery of Being back of all the brilliant rays. They 
knew what the Word was when it was spoken. 

If the Christian world acknowledges that the Bible is the 
Word and is authentic history of God and His people, why 
have they not linked the Egyptian history of religion with 
that taught by Moses to the Hebrews? They object to Fire 
worship as a form of heathenism and unenlightenment, 
and yet believe, with all faith, that God appeared to Moses 
as a Flame of Fire. 

Again, in Jeremiah, we read that God's Word is Like 
zAs a Fire; and in Acts, before the disciples were filled with, 
the Spirit, there appeared upon them "cloven tongues like 
as a fire and it sat upon each of them." And when Moses 
led the Hebrews out from bondage God went before them 
as a Pillar of Fire by night and smoke in the day time. 
The smoke was the shadow which covered the image of 
God by day, and is the Veil of Isis, or the Occult shadow 
which hides the mighty mystery of mysteries and the deep- 
er esoteric meaning of the Fire Philosophies. 

The Hebrews kept the fire burning on the Altar, and 
would never let it go out by day or night, and it represent- 
ed to them the light of the Most High, just the same as the 
Sun represents the same God to the Egyptians. 

John said to his disciples concerning Jesus, "He shall 
baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." The 
Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Truth, and the Spirit of Truth 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 47 

is the Christ WITHIN, and Fire, as the Bible teaches, is a 
Symbol of God. Therefore He baptized with the Spirit 
of Truth and of God. Spirit also means God; Truth 
means God; Fire means God, and Love is God Supreme. 
God baptizes God of God. This is very plain that God, 
or Christ, only can baptize God of God. Being of God, 
drawing to Him gods, they would necessarily be immersed 
with the Divine Fire. Immersion, or baptism, is simply the 
state of Divinity— man's highest and most glorious estate, 
and is the principle Christ taught and demonstrated. In 
Judges it reads, "Let them that love Him be as the SUN 
when he goeth forth in his might." The sun here was a 
symbol of righteousness and might, but was it Sun Wor- 
ship in its symbolic form? No. Those who loved the 
Lord were as the sun, mighty and righteous — such as the 
Egyptians worship as Osiris. 

God speaks to His children through Malachi, "But unto 
you that fear my name shall the Sun (Christ) of right- 
eousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go 
forth, and grow up as the calves of the stall." 

The Christ was spoken of all through the Scriptures as 
the Light that shines, as the Sun, as the Fire. 

What is the Christ, and what does it represent? It was 
not Jesus himself, for Jesus said, "Or myself I can do 
nothing, but my Father which is WITHIN me doeth the 
work," 



48 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

The Father we know as God — the God principle of the 
Man Jesus, the Spiritual Light that lighteth every man 
that cometh into the world. 

Jesus said: "The righteous shine forth as the sun in the 
kingdom of the Father." 

That he taught evolution is proven in the 13th chapter 
of Matthew, when he likens the kingdom of heaven to a 
grain of mustard seed, and a merchantman seeking good- 
ly pearls. 

Christ is the Light of the Divine from the Father in 
man. Jesus taught it, and all his disciples. The Osirians 
teach that same Light as the Divine spark from the Fath- 
er in man. They Teach a [Man How To Find It Within. 
Christ represents Love, Purity, Spirituality, and 
Truth. Osiris is the Father, is Love, is Purity, is Spirit- 
uality, is Truth. The Egyptians worshipped in this 
Thought. The true Osirians were the Initiates in the Spirit 
— who worshipped God in spirit and in truth, or they 
were not given the understanding and enlightenment 
which came to all those who were true worshippers, for 
remember that man cannot give all things. 

Masters may teach, but man must prove to the Spirit 
that he is worthy before the Spirit is poured upon him 
before knowledge which no man dares teach is given him. 

The God, or good, in us is the witness of all we do and 
is the JUDGE of every act, is recorded for or against us* 



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The ancients knew God as God, kept within themselves 
the evidence of His being. Because of symbols made by 
the Egyptians, historians have consigned them to heathen 
worship, not realizing that they betray the limit of their 
knowledge b\ so doing. Every symbol had a spiritual 
meaning. Their stones, monuments and hieroglyphics 
were the same WORD as the Bible. They recorded in 
symbol what man has recorded by letters. Is there any 
difference? Is a letter not a hieroglyph after all? It is a 
symbol of knowledge at any rate, but does not convey the 
impression of heathenism. 

We read that Moses was instructed in all the learning of 
(he Egyptians. He was nourished and educated by them 
in all things. If they were such a heathenish, unenlight- 
ened people, why was Moses superior to any man of his 
time? Why was there not a Jew to equal him. 1 ' Why 
was it necessary for him to be thrown into the hands of 
the Egyptians to become able to lead his people? Why 
was Joseph taken into Egypt before he was able to save 
his people? And why was the child Jesus, born of a god, 
taken into Egypt for many years? He possessed knowl- 
edge that no man of his time knew, which he demonstrat- 
ed upon his immediate return from Egypt, when he talked 
with the learned at the synagogues. 

He taught the idea of the Egyptian Osiris in the teach- 
ing of the Christ. Christ was the Divinity, which was the 
Light, as Qsiris is the Sun of all righteousness. 



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DEVELOPMENT ^A^KD 

EMPLOYMENT. 

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CHAPTER SEVEN. 



"DEVELOPMENT AO^D 
EMPLOYMENT. 



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ANY STUDENTS believe that when they start 
with the greater Development, they must give 
up their work or employment. 

|"1 A man should follow honest labor and em- 

LJ ployment, and he can develop better and quick- 
er if he does so. Development of the Soul goes 
hand in hand with honest and worthy labor. 

"He that is faithful in that which is least is faiihful also 
in much." To be counted worthy to receive the greater, 
do that which is required in the way of duty. It is man's 
duty to work. He owes it to himself to give his body 
necessary physical exercise, in the way of honest labor, to 
keep it in harmony with the laws of nature, for when the 
body is inactive and not exercised enough it consumes its 
energy and grows weak and inert. 

The mind is controlled by the same laws. 

An indolent body soon drags the mind into neglect and 
inactivity. The mind is Creator of everything. When a 
man begins his development, when his Soul expands into 
tn*e greater, he creates better ideas and manifests them in 
his work. Never slight your work. You only cheat YOUR- 
SELF when you do so, God never gave anything for 



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nothing. If a man lives and grows he must work. God 
Himself is. never idle. He could not exist if He should 
stand still. Work is the strongest law of development. 
We attain our desires by energy, effort, push and constant 
work. "By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou live." This 
is the command of the ages, and none can gainsay it. 

It is better to not ayply oneself too closely to study. 
When the body is tired, or heavy, or indolent, the mind is 
not in good condition, and antagonistic forces are liable to 
creep in. 

Constant study and indifference to work is bad for the 
mind. Insanity and obsession of various kinds are caused 
by too much concentration and practice on any given 
point or subject, for the mind must be rested by some 
other thought. It must be refreshed and ideas changed, 
to keep it strong and ever ready. One thing constantly 
does not make a good diet. One would certainly tire of 
bread alone all the time. And the body would demand 
something else, part of the time at least. 

Labor does not lessen a man's intellect or his goodness. 
The greatest men on earth have come up from hard and 
ceaseless toil. 

Abraham Lincoln would never have become President 
if he had not worked his way to it. The force and energy 
that gave him strength to split rails was the same force 
that took him to the White House and made him ruler 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSKIP. 53 

over many. He was faithful in the lesser things, and this 
made him worthy of the greater. 

Leo Tolstoi, the greatest writer of this or any century, 
the man whose fame has become immortal while he still 
lives, is not a drone. He does not live from his literary 
work, but he works upon his farm as a common farmer. 

The carpenter's trade in no wise withheld Jesus in his 
development and becoming the inspired leader of hosts of 
men. We read that he was a little lower than the angels, 
yet he was a carpenter and worked at day's labor. Peter, 
John and James were fishermen. The Apostle Paul, in 
his journeyings and teachings, followed tent making for a 
living. He wrote in many places of his work and strug- 
gles. The great teachers along all religious lines have been 
men who worked unremittingly. It is a test of fitness. He 
who is best fitted for the Higher must be one who is faith- 
ful in the least of things. 

Work helps the mind to concentrate and to grow. It 
helps one to throw off the poisons from the system and 
cleans the body. A clean body is next thing to a clean 
soul. Inactivity draws upon all energies. All the organs 
of the body contribute a portion of their energies, and this 
is consumed and new energy is not accumulated. You are 
drawing upon Nature's Great Storehouse and not contrib- 
uting anything in return for what you take away. Nature 
is full of energy and life. She does NOT give without 



54 CHRISTHOOD AND ADKPTSHIP. 

DEMANDING A FULL RETURN. 

If refused she closes her doors to you and thrusts you 
out. Then you are consumed and transferred into some- 
thing else. Nature is Life. She is always giving and tak- 
ing. If she gives you a strong, healthful body, full of life 
and vigor, she will demand much of you. The more she 
gives, the more she will demand. When she is generous, 
she expects you to be generous also. Nature has no use 
for the sloven, the drone, the shiftless, neglectful person. 
She is a wise guardian, and bestows her favors where they 
will be the most appreciated. 

The body is composed of the same currents as the mind. 
The mind CREATES the body, and everything the body 
does. Remember this, remember that everything you do, 
think, say, or feel, is Created By ihe Mind. You can 
not hide your mind or your thoughts. Watch the lowest 
laborer at his work. 1 he better mind manifests or creates 
the best work. Study the vibrations of the minds about 
you. Watch them unfold to you their every thought or 
idea in their work. The truly great soul does the best he 
can in everything he does. 

Great souls do not incarnate to become less than they 
were. 

They incarnate to work, to accomplish, to achieve, to 
benefit humanity in every way, and the little things have 
been the stepping stones to their power. A great soul 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSKIP. 55 

seeking perfection does not choose a home of luxury and 
idle ease. He does not select the vibrations that draw him 
into pleasure, and careless, aimless living. Great souls in- 
carnate TO WORK. They choose the fields where work 
is needed most, and they are ever ready to fulfil every 
duty, great or small. The soul of Broker T. Washington 
responded to the call for help from a new and misunder- 
stood race. 

Mighty souls are the visible manifestations of the Creator. 
Therefore despise none of His works. 

God works in everything. The man at the hoe, at the 
anvil, at the engine, at the wheel, is a manifestation of the 
Creator — God — and he is daily manifesting the ideas and 
development of God, or Creator. Take the man who 
worked his way up from nothing to greatness and power, 
and compare him to the man who inherited everything he 
owns, and who spends his time, his life, his money, in riot- 
ous living, and analyze the dominating force in each mind. 
Which one has developed the greatest? Which one ac- 
cumulated and attained? Which mind manifested most 
power, most strength and Unity with Creation? 

God has no use for the man who will not work. He 
soon loses his likeness to the Divine Image, and becomes a 
forgotten smudge on the Mirror of Humanity. 

The greater the number of currents of the mind that you 
strengthen, the more you accumulate and possess. It is 



56 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



like the man with the five talents, he accumulated more, 
and was considered worthy to rule over ten cities. He 
made use of all the ideas, thoughts, and power that he 
had, and, as a reward, many good things were added unto 
him. 

The Law of Compensation Is Sure. If you desire, you 
will win. The greater your obstacles, the greater is your 
power to surmount, for God does not place small burdens 
on strong shoulders, nor heavy burdens on the weak. No 
man carries a burden he is not able to carry. You will no- 
tice that the strong are given the greatest burdens. It is a 
test of strength, of worthiness, of fitness, and as they bear 
it, so they are given additional strength. The strongest, 
bravest, most energetic soldiers are chosen as the leaders 
and generals of the army. There are a few exceptions, 
but these exceptions soon give place to the general rule. 

They work up from the ranks, and all of them have, for 
no man will follow a leader who does not wish to work. 
No man will follow a coward, and a man who will not 
work is a coward. The Admirals of the Navy are men 
who have worked up, and were promoted because they 
were worthy. 

It is better to multiply our powers, talents, and energy, 
and replenish the earth, than to stand and retrograde. The 
gods know whom to trust. You may be strong in mind 
and thought, but if you are, you will manifest that strength 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 57 

in something VISIBLE. We must accomplish. We must 
create, or we stand still and lose our likeness to Him who 
created us that we might go on with His work, creating all 
that He gives us to create. Our possibilities are limitless. 
Recognize ONENESS with the Creator and you will rec- 
ognize yourself. You will know what you are. You will 
know that you are a representative of the Creating Force; 
that you have the power, latent WITHIN you, capable of 
accomplishing every thought or desire. When a desire or 
thought is is in the mind it has begun its creation. It is 
born, and you have the power to keep it Alive and Make 
II Gtow if You Wish and Will To Do So. 

If thrust aside and unrecognized it will die, but if you 
nourish it, // Will Glow. It will grow to its full height. 
But it requires work. 

Sometimes it requires heavy, earnest labor, but if you 
love your child you will work for it. 

Development requires work. It requires physical as well 
as mental and spiritual labor. 

The hands were made for something. They must not 
be idle. Physical work, if honest, is necessary for devel- 
opment of the Soul. Certain muscles and organs must be 
kept well oiled and in running condition, or they react on 
the mental, and this reacts upon the spiritual, for the Soul 
is dependent upon the mind, and the body is the currents 
of the mind. All are one. There is nothing outside of 
Mind as a Creator, for Mind is Creator of all thing. 



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THE RELIGION "DEMANDED 
BY THE PEOPLE. 



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CHAPTER EIGHT. 



THE RELIGION "DEMANDED 
BY THE PEOPLE. 



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HE WORLD of to-day has become imbued with 
countless chisms, cults, doctrines, theories, and 
scientific researches. 

D These distinct and divers doctrines have sprung 

up almost unawares, and orthodoxy awoke in 
the dawn of the Twentieth Century to find a 
great revolution had taken place i.i religious dominions 
while they placidly slept. Although the great revolution 
had spread among the folks of denominational creeds and 
doctrines and made strong, though subtle inroads into the 
congregations. 

There are so many cults, so many creeds, and so many 
doctrines, that we realize that there is a religion for every- 
body. 

In the study of the cults, creeds, and sciences, one soon 
finds himself wandering from path to path, winding from 
theory to theory, idea, or belief, (call it what you wish) to 
another, until, finding one which seems to harmonize with 
mind and thought, he accepts it. 

Much criticism has been spent upon the divisions of or- 
thodox religions, their failure to harmonize, to draw to- 
gether in Unity and Oneness, yet the same spirit of diver- 



60 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



genet of theories, of opposition, is apparent among leaders 
and organizers of modern cults. 

Yet the illuminated man will not permit chaos to pre- 
vail even at the cost of all he holds most dear, for the re- 
ligion c f to-day Must Be One Which Can Stand the Tides 
and Storms, and Which Can Give Something in Return 
for the Striving, the Struggle, and Desire for Truth. 

The Religion Demanded By the People of the Present 
Century must be one which can withstand all antagonistic 
criticism, one which is capable of drawing all men into one 
complete, harmonious brotherhood. 

But one religion can do that— the religion which does 
not try to form creed-bound organizations, but which 
teaches each man that HE is the Church, the Temple of 
the Living Christ, and that he must stand alone. He is the 
builder of the Temple of Solomon, and that is a Spiritual 
structure. This is the religion for the people of the Twen- 
tieth Century. It is the Church of Illumination. 

The world stands to-day in the same attitude in which it 
stood two thousand years ago — hungry, thirsting, seeking 
a Truth, tangible, real and worthy. 

The world then hovered near the threshold of a great 
awakening, seeking that which it had not, but which it 
hungered for — Truth, Love and Understanding. 

There were the Pharasees, who believed in the resurrec- 
tion of the dead, in the immortality of the soul, and in 



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spiritual manifestation. But they separated themselves 
from others, were exclusive, devoid of love and sympathy, 
were exhorbitant and proud. They composed the group of 
Jewish dignitaries whom the Master called "white sepul- 
chres filled with dead men's bones." Parasides they were, 
living and drawing upon the strength of those who were 
the blinded victims of their bigoted teachers. These Phar- 
asees believed within themselves. They gave great dem- 
onstrations of spiritual perception, but they lacked the 
great essential qualities which marks the Christian. 

There were others following the same path of divergence 
from Truth, only in slightly different avenues. Believing 
that there was a great creative force in Nature, and the 
Sadducees, though not broadly skeptical, denied the author- 
ship of the Law of Moses and the origin of Man. They 
were there with the Pharasees, and came tempting Jesus 
and endeavoring to turn many away from the Truth by 
subtle arguments and shrewd questionings. 

The Scribes, worldly-minded and fault-finding, were an- 
other contingency Jesus had to deal with. Their tradition- 
al evidene and doctrines were fraught with fabulous sug- 
gestions and mere suppositions. They were the lawyers 
and councils which tried and condemned the Master to 
physical death. 

These sects were prevalent during the ministry of Jesus, 
and they did not escape his frequent reproach and denun- 



62 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

ciation, whose doctrines of Love, Peace and Good-will to 
all men, was not moulded nor formed after the doctrines 
and commandments of men whom he warned the disciples 
to beware. 

They are here with us again to-day. The same spirit of 
unrest, seeking, contending, speculating, delving into the 
mystical, and claiming phenomena where there is no 
phenomena, "straining at gnats and swallowing camels, ,? 
prone to dis-believe the strongest evidence of Truth, and 
authorizing opinions far more unstable and visionary. 

The religion of the world to-day must be one not frought 
with "profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of 
science, falsey so-called, which some professing have erred 
concerning the faith." 

We need not a religion that lifts us so far up in the 
clouds of delusion and snares that we lose our foothold on 
mother earth. 

When the WORD, which was spoken in the beginning- 
became FLESH and delt among us, THE\ knew him not. 
"The WORD was made flesh and dwelt among us, (and 
we beheld his glorry, the glory of the only begotten of the 
Father,) full of GRACE and TRUTH." 

This is the Light that shineth in darkness and the dark- 
ness comprehends it not. It dwells among us, WITHIN 
us, in reach of all who searches and listens dilligently, but 
NOT in the clouds of the air which are carried about, not 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 63 

by forces of their own, but are without guidance and sta- 
bility of the Truth. 

When darkness reigned upon the face of the deep, when 
the earth was without form and void, the Spirit of God 
(creation) moved upon the face of the waters and God 
said, "Let there be light and there was light." When crea- 
tion began there was LIGHT, and the Spirit of God moved 
upon the face of the waters (minds). Therefore, when 
the spirit of creation stirred the minds of men there was 
light, and the Light was and always will be. 

The visionists of the Twentieth Century will stop aghast 
at this eternal Truth, too simple to believe, a mystery not 
at all complex or astonishing, but it is the "mystery which 
hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is 
made manifest to His saints" — the mystery of the Christ, 
the true conception of the Truth. 

When Creation began there was light or understanding 
and Truth. 

Every man in the world to-day has a particle of the Di- 
vine light WITHIN him. He knows right from wrong; he 
knows the paths that lead away into subterfuge and deceit; 
he KNOWS when his heart is hardened, and why. All 
men have more or less light within their minds, and they 
are guided more or less by that Light. Your understand- 
ing — what is it? 

Minds of men— where did it come from? Where does. 



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it dwell? 

Tell me WHY it is the mind that suffers when suffering 
comes. 

Tell me WHY we seek peace and rest from the mind. 
Why, when our minds are at peace, the soul and body 
rests? 

Is it not that spark of Divinity which rests within the 
soul of man and guides it to its destiny? 

Mind is the Electrical current or spark from the Divine 
Force or Creation which lodges in the soul, or is the creat- 
ing Light or spark of the soul, and the religion of the 
Twentieth Century must be based on the common every- 
day thinking mind. The mind is the electrical center of 
the Soul. Every thought is a current of good or bad radi- 
ating from that center. It also draws to it every current in 
harmony with its own vibration, and makes or mars the 
destiny of man. 

It is through mind (thought) that the works of God are 
manifest. 

It is through mind that the invisible law and force pre- 
dominates. 

Mind creates and manifests daily every thought that is 
drawn into it, and he knows, who sees, reads with accur- 
acy where the law is obeyed or broken. 

Nature records every vibrating force that man is capable 
Of giving, 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 65 

The Supreme Mind works in all, through all. It is the 
receiver, the transmuter, the caretaker, the Giver. 

Out in the desert, the same invisible law and force dem- 
onstrates the ONE Supreme Mind in all, and through all. 

Even there, in every plant and animal there must be a 
receiver, a vessel for these currents from the Divine. 
Hence there must be a spark in every plant, rock, vegeta- 
ble, or animal, that is similar and attractive to the Force 
that flows into it, and the spark of Unity manifests which 
ray, or force, or current, from the Deity it is. 

Every force in Nature is guarded by the same Mind that 
rules all. Certain persons believe that God and science 
are apart, are separate, and cannot be ONE. 

This is a mistake. God is ALL. 

Have you ever watched the sunset in desert lands 5 

Who, what paints that glowing crimson western sky 3 
Those glistening mountain tops we see outlined against 
the red and gold are but pointing us toward the secret of 
their being. 

That scraggly sage-bush there, that feathery tree which 
shimmers down from over that rocky ledge like a shower 
of gold, and the crusty salt beds which outlines our forms 
in indigo blues, are testifying and demonstrating that they 
are something, something too of Life, of Force, of Power, 
of Creation. The breathe, they feed, they GROW. 

Look upward beyond the dunes and watch the clouds 



66 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



gather in graceful groups, tinted with a blend of coloring 
no mortal mind can conceive or hand paint. They float 
away into the great beyond, a living testimonial of the 
One Great Force, because 1 see behind those clouds a 
Force, a Creator, a Love so great, so strong, so beautiful 
I cannot turn away and say "I only sense it." 

God is there, is there — out there in that lonely, barren 
tract. Every hill, mountain, plant, animal, everything 
moves and palpitates with His Force and Being. The 
clouds change to purple, to gold, and blue. They grad- 
ually fade away as twilight sifts down silently with the 
rising breeze. 

All around, the night is falling fast, but the moon is 
slowly rising so far above and lights up the lonely waste 
with her weird glow. One by one worlds of light are 
twinkling onward in their destiny, lending their force, 
their light unto my own. 

I know my way. I know the Hand that formed this 
vast plane into harmony and being will guide ME safely 
home. Above the sandy, barren waste, beyond the bril- 
liant moon, the twinkling stars, there is a Greater Light. 
1 see the Light and know its force, its power, and 1 will 
not fail because 1 recognize it as the Light that shineth in 
darkness, as the Spirit that moves upon the face of the 
deep, as the Mind that lives, breathes, surges through ALL 
and eventually guides all into Unity with its own, 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 67 



It is the Light WITHIN. It is the Christ, and to find 
Salvation ALL must find this Light within their Soul. 
Brother, where is it? 




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THE CHU%CH OF 
ILLUCMI^CATION. 



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CHAPTER NINE. 


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THE CHURCH OF 
ILLVZMKKATIO&C. 




E THAT getteth Wisdom loveth his own Soul. 
Wisdom leads to understanding:, and under- 
standing to Illumination. Solomon, the great 
King and Magician, found favor with the gods 
because of his choice of wisdom and an under- 
standing heart. And because of his unselfish 
desire, great things were added unto him, the half of which 
was never told. 

The choice of a man's life moulds him, be it what it 
may. Man is the temple, the church, the dwelling place of 
the LIVING God. God's spirit, life, is WITHIN him. 

Illumination is Light — "the Light that lighteth every 
man that cometh into the world." 

The dimest, most flickering light can illuminate to some 
extent. When fanned and fed it will burst into rlame and 
light up immense space. 

When the tiny Christ is fed and nourished He will grow 
beyond the expectation of the material Mind. 

To desire understanding and the knowledge of the laws 
of life is wisdom. And the wise man loves his soul. He 
desires to increase it, to bring it into Divine Unity, to be- 
come a Christ. 



70 CHRISTHOOD AND ADKPTSHIP. 

As long as man remains blind and deaf to the longings 
of his soul he is in darkness. 

When God created, He created for a purpose. Man is 
the image, His likeness, and WITHIN man is the spark of 
Divinity. When the desire of the soul turns God-ward, 
the spark begins to kindle into a flame. It sends out rays 
of heat and light, and the soul begins to understand that 
this light is the light that saves. 

The greatest work that has ever been done has been by 
men who were in touch with Divinity. All that man 
gives, his thoughts, his purpose or aim in life, is born from 
within. One thought can grow to such immensity that it 
will fill all space. It is heralded throughout the wide world 
and produces ideas in minds, kingdoms, and spaces far 
apart, and lights up a world with its own power. Thus it 
is that the tiny flame of Divinity illuminates the man 
WITHIN, and eventually produces a power that leads it 
up to the throne of the gods. When Christ stands knock- 
ing at your door it is that Still Small Voice of your own 
Conscience which all should know and heed. Intuition is 
AWAKENED Conscience. The Conscience is that Still 
Small Voice we all have heard sometimes in our life. 

And this Still Small Voice is the Christ WITHIN man. 
It is the Messenger of the Creator to its own. By contin- 
uous hearkening to this Small Voice, it will develop to such 
an extent that at any time it will answer to your call. It 



CHRISTHOOU AND ADEPTSHIP. 71 

is unerring and accurate, and when fully developed illumi- 
nates the whole mind with knowledge, power, and peace, 
for it is a beacon light— it is the Soul. The development 
of this tiny Voice makes the spaces void, and one can be- 
come in touch with god-like beings who have never lived 
on earth, and with those noble souls who have gone the 
way and who will give their knowledge and power to those 
who attain to these mental and spiritual planes. 

By the unfoldment we are led into the Sonship of God, 
the Father. Then are we as Christ, and on the rock Christ 
built His Church — the Church of Illumination. "Thou 
art the Christ, the Son of the Living God," is the rock on 
which the Church was builded. And every person who 
has attained that perfection and glory has the power of a 
Christ. When the Neophyte becomes Illuminated, when 
he feels the first thrills of conscious Unity with God he 
begins to manifest his likeness to the Divine. He responds 
with heart and soul to the betterment of his own condition 
and that of others. He sees new and larger fields of ac- 
tion. He sees the struggle of humanity, and recognizes 
the Soul captive striving for its freedom, and understands 
how to lend a helpful hand where it may bring that soul 
to consciousness of its existence. 

The material life loses its glamor. He sees only the 
REAL. He longs only for the real. The old doubts, the 
old pains, and the physical longings are cast aside with the 



72 CHRISTHOOD AND ADHPTSHIP. 

old life, as one casts aside an old and warn-out garment. 
He thinks, acts, and speaks in a conscious Unity with all 
the great ones of earth and heaven. 

Slowly the veil is lifted and he sees "face to face" with 
Nature, and knows her secrets and her laws. This knowl- 
edge teaches Love, Adoration for the great Supreme Crea- 
tor, the real God of the Gods. 

Illumination is the Fire, the Flame, the Light that de- 
stroys all darkness. Man cannot live in darkness. Dark- 
ness is the "bottomless pit prepared for the devil and his 
angels, for darkness is the only hell there is." As long as 
man continues to dwell therein, he will continue to suffer. 
The mind or soul suffers for every broken law. When the 
mind suffers the body suffers, which shows how closely 
allied are the physical and spiritual forces. 

Do you know that the body is built up by the mind? 
This rriind is an electrical Unit or Center from which your 
whole being sprung. You are the Creator of your own 
self, your body, and all that you are. When you were 
sent out from the Supreme Father you were as a branch 
from the vine. A ray of light placed you into Life. This 
ray gathered unto itself all the good and the bad, the beau- 
tiful and the grave which were in harmony with its own 
desires and development. 

God is Life, and exists in all forms and expressions of 
Life. God is not only in matter, but IS matter. There is 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 73 

nothing substantial in the belief that matter does NOT ex- 
ist. "God made ALL that was made, and without Him 
was nothing made." ALL includes everything. There- 
fore, all He made is a part of Him, and is a likeness and is 
in Unity, harmony, and colleague with His plans. We 
have discovered His plans and His Laws, and we accept 
Him as the Father of all Light. These Laws are manifest- 
ed in unfoldment, for with unfoldment we see their effect 
— we know the cause and effect. These laws first become 
manifest in the mind of man. The Mind is invisible, but 
its form of expression and thoughts are daily manifested 
and felt, because there is a communication between mind 
and matter, and matter conveys to a more compact, tangi- 
ble form the ideas and workings of the mind. Within the 
ether and spaces about us, recognized and felt by the finer 
substance, Mind, dwells ideas, thoughts, a manifestation of 
the workings of some greater or force. This is conveyed 
to matter (darkness) and is developed into a more com- 
pact and tangible form. The very fact that the idea or 
thought becomes tangible is but greater proof that a Su- 
preme Force exists and dwells in and with and illuminates 
matter, or man. 

An. idea was once formed in the mind of man to procre- 
ate a certain kind of flower, two distinct and separate 
plants might be grafted together. This idea was born, or 
came into mind. Mind controlled the hand, the knife, the 



74 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



plant, directed vivisection, the impaling of one section into 
the other, and waited for the visible and material develop- 
ment of Mind. 

Just so is the Christ born into mind, and becomes a vis- 
ible and material manifestation of Good, or God. 

The whole body must become a Church of Illumina- 
tion. Mind alone cannot save itself. The body must be 
subdued or transmuted. It must be drafted into the Spir- 
itual. The mind cannot think right and let the hand do 
wrong. Every member of the body must become illumi- 
nated, must be purged of evil, and grafted into purity and 
goodness. Matter daily reflects God, more or less. The 
purer and better a man becomes, the stronger is his reflec- 
tion of God. 

A tree in the fullness of summertime reflects Life. It 
moves, it breathes, it sways, it blooms, it GROWS. It 
gives a visible manifestation of Life WITHIN IT. It is 
consuming, holding, building, and moulding the forces of 
Life within it. It draws its strength from the earth, and it 
sends out a manifestation of the earth's properties of life 
by unfolding, growing, giving out life more abundantly. 

We send out a vibration or current, or thought, of good 
will, love, and peace to our fellowmen. That vibration is 
drawn to others similar to itself. It draws strength from 
them, and becomes more or stronger. A dozen thoughts 
sent out accumulate yet more. These thoughts respond to 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



75 



thought. The hand in an act of evil deeds will draw back 
and respond in unity to the repentant that controls it. In 
this way the body, the dwelling place of the soul, becomes 
illuminated— a Light of Goodness and Truth. It becomes 
a temple of the Christ, the Son of God, and his own Il- 
luminated Soul. 




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I I 

HEALlUtC 

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CHAPTER TEN 



HEiALING. 



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T IS ABSOLUTELY necessary for the student 
who desires to become a healer to have at least 
some knowledge of the Laws of Being; of what 
cause brought man into the world, his mind, 
his soul, and the occult principle on which 
these are constructed. 
There are few healers who really understand this Great 
Mystery of the Sex, and those who are contemplating prac- 
ticing healing should have a careful training on the sub- 
ject by one who thoroughly understands the Supreme Sex 
Mystery. 

Physicians are required to know all about the physical 
body, what it is composed of, its normal and abnormal 
conditions, and the diseases of each organ of the body, and 
how to treat them, acute and chronic. Yet the average 
healer knows very little about the greater mystery of be- 
ing, of the mind, its normal and abnormal state, and es- 
pecially along the Spiritual lines he knows still less. 

Suggestions may be given in different forms. Sugges- 
tions given without a thorough knowledge of the Sex 
Mysteries are like taking a dose of medicine without a 
physician's prescription. It is more chance and guess work 



78 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



than anything else. Yet Suggestion is a Great Law, a pow- 
erful healing agent, and good suggestions are always bene- 
ficial, but to become a perfectly skilled and accurate healer 
one should know all about the first principles or secrets of 
Life. In this knowledge lies all the secrets of perfection in 
healing. 

Suggestions when positive and forceful are lasting, and 
can effect any cure of any curable disease. 

The mind is that part of us that responds to Divinity. 
We could not know Divinity from anything else if we had 
no mind. 

The mind is the Unit of Creation. By its thoughts or 
actions are all things created that are created. It holds 
within itself the cusps of transition from God to man, and 
into Divinity again. 

This is the sustainer, the equilibrator of all forces of 
good and evil. We think, we move, we eat, live entirely 
through mind, for in mind is the corresponding forces of 
Divinity. 

This Unit that springs from God the Father builds up 
for itself, in vibrations, the Aura that constitutes the soul. 

The Soul is the finer substance created by the 1 noughts 
of the Mind. 

The center of the mind is too light and fine to become 
visible to the physical eye. 

In the center of the mind, the currents are produced by 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 79 

positive and receptive action of the Creating Forces. Sim- 
ilar to the Greater Forces, these vibrations become more 
compact as they are inducted into receptive principles. The 
further away from the center the more compact and firm 
the body becomes; hence the outward or external forma- 
tion of the body is more compact than the inner, which is 
the soul. 

When the mind is held by the currents of sensual pleas- 
ures of the material or grosser life, these vibrations are sent 
throughout the existing aura, and the body is formed or 
created, moulded and stamped, by these concentrated vi- 
brations, and takes on the likeness of the thoughts con- 
tained in the mind. 

If a man will not lift himself from the gross and mater- 
ial, if he is content to remain an animal, the currents of 
the mind or soul are the real foundation of his body, and 
he is gross, and material, and sensual, because he thinks 
the thoughts that moulds the flesh. 

When a man is an accurate reader of human nature, he 
can readily distinguish the sensual from the pure, the weak 
from the strong, the clean from the unclean, by the forma- 
tion of the features and the body. 

If a man walks carelessly and shiftless, if he presents a 
don't care, rundown look, his mind is similar to his looks, 
because the whole vibration from center to circumference 
js created and built up by the thought currents in his mind. 



80 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

How easy it is to detect the criminal from the godly. We 
will carry about with us the thoughts we create. We all 
show to the world the center of the soul, whether it be fine 
and light or compact and coarse, for the flesh is composed 
of the same substance as the mind, and is mind also in as 
much as the invisible mind, only it is the mind SEEN. It 
is the compact form of mind. 

When the healer fully comprehends that all is really 
mind, composed of mind, formed of mind, created of 
mind, he will have a perfect knowledge of the basis of the 
Law of Healing. 

When a part of the body is diseased, it only proves that 
certain currents of health are resisted or retarded by an an- 
tagonistic force of its own. Sometimes the vibrations or 
thoughts of the mind are of sensuality, lust, gloomy and 
pessimistic. These vibrations go through the body and 
destroy nerve tissues and cells. 

When the body is racked with some dread disease, it is 
produced by the mind. The mind creates EVERYTHING. 
Hate, envy, and malice, are vibrations charged with poi- 
son, so is jealousy, doubt and anger, and this poison is 
sent through the whole system in tiny subtle currents, fine 
and penetrating they are, and will utterly destroy when 
they accumulate and hold it and transfer it to whom they 
come in contact with. 

Happy, hopeful, healthful thoughts will build up instead 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 81 

of destroying, and the healer must be able to transfer the 
whole strength of his mind into these mental currents. If 
disease is thought power, then thought power can cure it. 
There are many diseases produced by the abuse of the sex 
laws, and that is why every healer should have a thorough 
knowledge of the Sex Mysteries. He is able to know 
whether disease was produced by thought alone or through 
abuse of the sex laws during certain periods. 

Diagnose your case thoroughly through mental laws. 
Indigestion and dyspepsia are produced by currents of 
worry, hate and greed. These, of course, affect other or- 
gans, but the stomach is the vital spot for worry and hate. 
Sensual, lustful thoughts produce brain disorders and 
weaken the digestive organs. Jealousy and anger are 
nerve wreckers, and you will find hysterical, fault-finding, 
nagging men and women, usually jealous or high-tem- 
pered. 

Timid, shrinking, palid people aie constipated and bil- 
ious. Fear stops the strong throbbing currents of health, 
and makes the blood thin and insufficient. 

To treat these cases properly, Remove the Cause. 

If it is fear, then proceed to eliminate fear from the 
mind. Produce a current of fearlessness and happiness 
by mental suggestions, by application of the hands over 
the diseased parts. 

During treatment the patient is always negative or pass- 



82 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



ive, while the healer must be possitive. 

The body is divided into portions, positive and negative, 
and the student should have instructions concerning these 
positions, for many mistakes are made by wrong applica- 
tion of the hands. The right hand is always positive, and 
the left hand is negative. Therefore the right hand should 
be placed with the negative circle, while the left should 
follow the positive portion. This, when properly done, 
will create a vibration distinctly felt, either magnetic or 
electric, and the currents created and transferred will surge 
through the affected parts just the same as a battery charge 
is felt. Properly understood, these vibrations will master 
and cure any disease curable. 

If a case is stubborn and will not yield at the first treat- 
ment, be assured it will yield after several treatments, for, 
unless the body is totally destroyed, these electro-magnetic 
charges WILL build up the diseased nerves, tissues, and 
cells. They Restore, Because They Create Anew That 
Which Was Destroyed. If a portion of the body is dis- 
eased because of broken vibrations or currenfs it can be 
made whole by restoring new, strong, healthful currents, 
just the same as any magnetic substance can be made alive 
and magnetic by being recharged. 

Strong mental suggestions must be given. 

Allow nothing to weaken or swere the mind from its 
object, 



CHRTSTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 83 

Demand health, strength, and life to your patient, and 
they will come. Argue gently, firmly, and positively with 
the disease. 

Do not allow it to affirm itself. Do not admit the pres- 
ence of disease. Do not become tense and rigid yourself, 
but assume a quiet, calm, positive attitude. Do not at any 
time allow yourself to become excited, over anxious or 
impatient. Be calm and serene at all times. Examine the 
patient carefully, quietly and calmly. This keeps harmon- 
ious vibrations in circulation. 

If the stomach should be the diseased portion, do not 
say: "You have no disease; you are not sick;" bat do not 
AFFIRM disease or sickness. Affirm health, peace and 
happiness. Repeat over and over, mentally, (aloud if you 
wish,) "I will that this person draws to him or herself the 
vibrations of Health, Peace and Happiness. The Divine 
WITHIN me sends forth these currents of health, strength 
and life, and I Will them to continue with the person in- 
definitely." 

Have your patient to relax, to become restful and trust- 
ful. Tell him he will be stronger and better in every way. 
Instill thoughts of purity into the mind by the same repe- 
tition of health. WILL that vibrations of purity, good- 
will and kindness be incarnated in the thoughts and ac- 
tions. 

By doing so you destroy sensual vibrations and start into 



84 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



operation currents of purity. These currents will live if 
persistent treatment is given. Do not at anytime become 
vascillating and careless. Alwavs keep a positive attitude. 
Do not become aggressive and argue against any complaint 
or pet theory of the patient. Be in command of SELF 
and you can command others. The true mystic is always 
self-controlled and self-possessed. 

If antagonistic thoughts are set against you, meet them 
with love, for love is fire, and fire consumes EVERY- 
THING. 

The stronger the love forces, the easier it is to counter- 
balance hate, envy and malice. 

There is more heat in love than in hate. There is more 
strength in affirmation and goodness than in denial. Good 
overcomes if genuine and strong. 

Keep your mind clean and free from all poisonous 
thoughts, and you can only send out or transfer vibrations 
that build up and restore lost health, Mentally or Morally. 

Concentrate forcibly on whatever you desire. Concen- 
tration accumulates all vibrations in tune or harmony with 
the mind. Concentration draws to you what you desire. 
It accumulates and transfers. When you desire to implant 
a thought in another's mind,you can do so by strong, forc- 
ible concentration. 

In accumulation you concentrate and Will that certain 
things come to you. In transference you Will that cer- 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 85 



tain things go to certain people or places. This is accum- 
ulation and transference, two strong, forcible laws that all 
healers should thoroughly understand and know how to 
operate properly. 

Beware of using any law to wrong another, for in doing 
so you accumulate the thoughts around you that you send 
out, and do more harm to yourself than to any one else. 

You are not your brother's keeper. He is his own crea- 
tor and the author of his own destiny. You have no au- 
thority to will anything or any body harm. It destro; s the 
vibrations and currents of love and attainment WITHIN 
yourself. 

Do good and think good and good will return to you. 

The Sex M>steries teach the exact truths concerning the 
laws of being and the great harm resulting from wrong 
thinking and the transference of evil thoughts. Mind is 
Sex. It is always producing or creating. It is the image 
or likeness of the Father, and through Mind Power are we 
able to save or destroy. 

It possesses all power of Good and Evil. 

Wherever we place our thoughts, that vibration is always 
in harmony with us until we break it by opposite thoughts. 

In healing the sick, we are constantly accumulating 
healthful and pure thoughts, and our own health improves 
as we surround ourselves with that aura. 



86 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



□ □ 

TRUE MENTAL OR 

SOUL SCIENCE. 

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CHAPTER ELEVEN 



TT^VE Q4ESKTAL OR 
SOUL SCIENCE. 



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RUE MENTAL-SPIRITUAL Science is Soul 
Science. Mind is the builder of the Soul. Is 
this not true? If not, then how could Solomon 
build that Temple. Solomon — his mind, build- 
ed the Temple of Solomon, which was nothing 
more or less than the Soul? Mind or Soul 
Science may be on one or two planes. The higher or low- 
er. Development is GROW1 H. The developed mind is 
growth of mind. No mind or soul can grow or develop 
on the lower plane. 

It may acquire knowledge, it may acquire shrewdness 
and cunning, it may think and produce, but it cannot grow 
or develop unless it reaches out for greater and diviner 
things than it possesses. It can accumulate, but it cannot 
grow. We can accumulate rubbish, but rubbish is rubbish 
always, and will not grow. Thus evil accumulates evil. 
It expands, becomes more, but it does not grow, because it 
cannot produce Life, and without life it cannot grow. Hence 
the true Mental or Spiritual Science is not on the lower 
plane, for life does not exist in the lower. It is always up- 
wards toward the higher. 

Mental Science is Mind Science, and Mind is the Builder 



88 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



of the Soul. Soul Science is the True Mental Science. 

The unenlightened soul may acquire broad knowledge. 
It can accumulate from its own plane all that that plane 
produces, but it does not attain or produce anything that 
LIVES. An evil father or mother produces an evil child, 
but that EVIL child cannot really LIVE. Accumulation is 
not growth. 

Dead twigs cannot produce anything — neither can a 
dead mind or soul. 

Concentration is the basis of Mental Science. 

Concentration, however, is not growth. It is accumula- 
tion and transference. Through non-concentration we ac- 
cumulate, attract or draw to us, and through concentration 
we send out or transfer every thought or force we draw to 
us. The Soul manifests its true self by the visible forces 
it draws around it and by the force it transfers. 

Concentration being the basis of Mental Science, we must 
concentrate upon the things that produce growth. If a 
man's mind is evil, and he concentrates constantly upon 
thoughts of life he will draw to himself the currents of life 
and is able to tranmute them. However, such life is not 
real life. It is but the existing of the body. 

Concentration may be a blessing or a curse. 

Concentrate upon good and you will accumulate and 
produce good. Concentrate on evil and you produce it. 
Concentration is thinking, meditating upon One Single 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 89 

Object or Subject to the Exclusion of Everything Else. 

Thus "as a man thinketh or concentrates, so is he." 

A good, perfect tree does not produce rotten fruit. Nei- 
ther can a pure mind produce sensual thoughts. Power 
greater than the Universe dwells in the mind. Man could 
destroy a world by a single thought if he understood the 
POWER OF THOUGHT. 

The mind is the Center from which electrical currents 
are sent to all parts of the body, building it up or tearing 
it down, according to the thoughts, good or bad. These 
currents are Negative or Positive. Positive thoughts go 
out in currents of pure, wholesome, beneficial, happy, 
healthful thoughts. These currents renew and build up 
broken-down cells and insufficient blood. They bring 
health, life, peace and contentment. 

These are the Magnetic Currents of the true Healer. 

They are transferred to the diseased parts of the body by 
THINKING. Anyone with Will Power and understanding 
can become a healer, with a little study of Thought Power 
or Mental-Soul Science. 

Negative thoughts act just the contrary to Positive 
thoughts. 

There is a right way and a wrong way of healing dis- 
eases. The purer and healthier the mind, the stronger the 
healing power, for an immoral person, even though he is 
employing positive thoughts, cannot give them the suffi- 



90 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

cient strength to exist as long as a pure-minded person can, 
and such thoughts of such person act negatively. 

Mind or Soul Science is based upon higher laws than the 
ordinary hypnotic trance, which many have employed for 
the healing of diseases and phenomena. Suggestions are 
helpful and beneficial in the extreme when rightly and 
wisely given. It is not necessary to make your subject or 
patient helpless and silent and unconscious in order to ef- 
fect a cure. 

A strong, healthful stream of positive thoughts Will 
Cure Any ^Disease Curable. 

Unless you understand all the Divine Laws, and how to 
use them; unless you are an Adept of Nature's Secret Laws 
which are known only to the very, very few, you should 
never employ hypnotism in the treatment of disease. 

There is a great Law regarding hypnotism which makes 
it extremely dangerous both to the operator and the sub- 
ject. More people meet with obsession in this than in any 
other way. There are sensitive people whom we call hyp- 
■ notic subjects, but it is extremely dangerous for these sub- 
jects to come under the control of any hypnotist until they 
have learned something of its good and evil effects. 

The harm lies not in the science itself so much as in the 
individual who demonstrates. It all depends upon what 
plane of mentality and spirituality they have atttined. 

We speak our thoughts every time we utter a word, and 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 91 

an unspoken thought may be just as Powerful. A thought 
is a thing — a vibration, just the same as an electrical cur- 
rent from a charged wire, or the ripple of the water creat- 
ed by throwing a pebble across its surface. 

-A true scientist will begin practicing with HIMSELF. He 
will purify his body from all gross material, and will purge 
his mind of all unclean, evil, lustful thoughts. His creed 
is: "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," and he will 
begin by keeping his heart pure, noble and clean. 

You can think good or you can think evil. 

You know what is wrong, and you know what is right. 

Every bit of knowledge that comes to you, if used for 
humanity, will lead you into the Right, but every bit you 
accumulate for selfish desires lead you far from the greater 
Truths and Powers which are yours by Divine Right. 

The Power of Thought Is Mighty, 

It is the foundation of ALL things. It is the secret force 
of all Creation and all science. Thoughts grow into beauty 
or evil just as the heart guides, for the heart brings forth 
all thoughts, and "as you sow so shall you reap." 

While everything seems to be dual-natured, yet God 
controls all, both the good and the evil. 

What are these coarser elements within us which are 
manifested every day of our lives? 

Did you ever stop to think? Have you ever analyzed 
yourself? 



92 CHRISTHOOD AND ADHPTSHIP. 



Did you ever sit down alone within the silence and 
meditate carefully upon your actions, words and thoughts 
of the day? 

If you have not, then you should do so. Interview 
yourself. Parade yourself AS YOU ARE before your 
own mind, and carefully weigh every view you get of 
yourself, and find out where you belong. We are but 
planting the seeds that shall be fruit of future lives. It 
will spring up into the grain we sow. We cannot harm 
one creature without harming ourselves more that any- 
thing else, and when we realize the Truths of this state- 
ment we may be able to keep ourselves on stronger 
ground. 

True Mental Science is based upon the ground of Truth 
and Good Will to ALL men. 

Godliness gives power, and power of godliness is great- 
er than all power. When you can truthfully say that you 
think only good, sincere, uplifting thoughts toward all 
humanity you have accomplished the first and the hardest 
lesson of science — Tme Soul Science. If you wish to de- 
velop your powers properly, sit alone quietly for ten or 
fifteen minutes every day and meditate upon thoughts of 
purity, love and peace to ALL. Include your enemies in 
your good will also, and you will be able to utilize and 
draw towards you all the forces of the Christs who have 
learned the most beautiful, but perhaps the hardest lesson 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 93 



of all — to forgive. Remember that a thought is a vibra- 
tion as strong as a charge of electricity, and goes in uner- 
ring accuracy in the direction in which it is sent. 

It bears fruit of its kind. 

It reaps what it sows. 

And if you wish the best, then send out the best you 
have. Your thoughts mingle with the thoughts of others 
which are just like yours, and all these thoughts harbor, 
mingle together, and sustain, and strengthen each other 
and produce effects. Good, bad, indifferent, it is all the 
same. They float in waves, in masses, in the atmosphere 
of all minds, and cause these minds to act in harmony 
with them, and are able to influence every mind they come 
in contact with. 

Much good can be accomplished through silent forces 
b) this development of pure Soul Science. 

It is the first stage of the development of the Soul, and 
is, therefore, Mind-Soul Science. The Soul is the REAL. 
It is the connecting link between God and man. 

It is the Soul that vibrates in currents throughout the 
body, building and making that body in conformity to its 
laws and forces. Therefore, be careful what manner of 
spirtt you have, lest it be reflected on your body. 



94 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



B I 

THE POWER OF PR^YE% 
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CHAPTER TWELVE. 



THE POWE% OF PR.JIYE% 



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HERE is power in sincere, earnest prayer. Real 
desire is prayer. A long, wordy prayer is su- 
perfluous and gains nothing. The prayer of a 
P hypocrite gains nothing, no matter what atti- 

^ tude he may assume, whether standing or 
kneeling in apparent devotion. If the prayer is 
not from the soul— created and formed by vibrations from 
the soul it avails nothing. 

A man may be a sinner, an outcast, he may be a prodi- 
gal existing on the "husks of swine," yet, if he prays with 
all his heart and all his soul, he DOES benefit by it. 

A desire is created by the Mind but really comes from 
the soul. A thought or a desire is a vibration created and 
sent forth from the Mind. A thought spoken is stronger 
than an unspoken thought, and a word produces vibrations 
or currents stronger than the thought. Therefore, prayer 
is in one sense CONCENTRATION, but it is a Soul con- 
centration. When we assume an attitude of prayer we 
begin to concentrate on what we must say. We accumu- 
late thoughts and form vibrations by concentration. In 
fact, during concentration we are creating. We create or 
form our thoughts wjthin the mind, but directed by the 



96 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 



Soul, and when formed we have accumulated all the vi- 
brations for which we desire. Recognizing God is NOT a 
personal Being, who regulates everything to suit Himself 
regardless of the other fellow, but with a full knowledge 
and understanding of the laws of vibration, of the power 
of concentration, we know that a prayer spoken aloud has 
just as much power to bring that which is desired as any 
other con:entrated thought or desire, even more so, if the 
prayer is sincere, strong and earnest, for in prayer the whole 
Soul is usually given up to the desire. A weak, unvoieed 
desire is no more a prayer than is a weak spoken one. 

The voice creates currents or vibrations. It is the mind 
and soul that controls the voice, that makes it silent or ac- 
tive. The voice is vibrations of thought from the mind. 
The Mind, at the behest of the soul, forms the thought in 
harmony with the desires of the soul, and is then given a 
sound by the voice. It is a continuous vibration and be- 
comes most intense when it becomes audible. There IS 
power in the human voice. It is the sound of thought, 
currents or vibrations, and is simply a reproduction of 
thought. "A word, or its equivalent, produces a ripple in 
the air, just the same as a pebble thrown into the water 
creates a ripple over the surface." 

Voices are of the same quality as the thoughts they rep 
resent. A sad voice is an unmistakable evidence of sad 
thoughts, Laughter is indicative of happiness or pleasure, 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 97 

and we all know that an angry voice betrays the mind 
that produces the voice. 

If thought is vibration, voice must be vibration. If 
thought is desire, and if silent thought and desire can lift 
one to a higher plane, and is a means of harmonizing with 
purity, truth and goodness, and is a power to insure as- 
sistance and help from these Higher Forces, the same 
thought sounded would have equal if not more power. In 
fact, it IS stronger, for it takes greater force to produce 
sound than silence, and the prayer that is sounded is stron- 
ger than the silent prayer, provided that the same intense 
feelings or concentration, or desire is behind it. Jesus of- 
ten prayed alond, and taught his disciples how to pray. 

The last words he spoke was a prayer for recognition 
and assistance. He prayed in a loud voice on that occasion. 
When he called Lazarus from the grave he did so in a loud 
voice. 

Jesus also taught the silent prayer, for he told many to 
go into a secret closet and pray. 

In ever\ case of healing recorded we read where he gave 
the suggestions of health and strength aloud. They did not 
depend entirely on silent thought. Peter told the beggar at 
the gate of the Temple Beautiful to "Rise up and walk." 
With all the force of thought and voice he accumulated 
and transferred the vibrations of health and strength to 
him. When Jesus prayed for Unity and Oneness for his 
disciples, they stood about him in receptive attitude. He 
prayed aloud that "they may be ONE even as we are one," 
«— vibrations of Unity and Harmony. They were receptive 



98 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

at that moment to those forces, and at the same time pos- 
itive to earthly desires and vibrations. 

A thought is created by the mind. It is created more 
forcibly when uttered. When the air is enclosed by walls 
or caves the voice produces an echo. It will reverberate for 
some distance and then rebounds. This is nothing but vi- 
bration. When it reaches the limit of its force, it is then 
carried back by the return current, and mind recognizes its 
own sound. 

When the voice is capable of making vibration stronger 
a prayer would undoubtedly be stronger aloud than silent. 

Much condemnation, and ofttimes ridicule, has been 
placed upon the priests of different schools of religion for 
praying for the forgiveness of penitents. 

People condemn the confessional. Why should they? 
When a sinner feels the desire to confess his wrong-doing 
to another, and asks for prayer and help, he has created 
the desire within his Soul for a better condition. He has 
reached out toward higher vibrations. His Soul, no mat- 
ter how black, has reached out toward something higher. 
Shall -he not have it? When the priest utters the prayer 
in harmony with the penitent's Soul or Heart's desire, a 
strong, double vibration for betterment is created, and these 
vibrations are carried out and accumulated and harmonize 
with all vibrations that are reaching higher. The penitent 
is receptive to the return of these vibrations, and if he can 
but be kept upon that plane for a short time real reforma- 
tion is the result. 
It is not that God grants him anything. It is simply that, 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 99 

like all other concentration and creation, he creates a new 
condition, and he comes into harmony with the vibrations 
of the higher planes. This Is the Secret of Prayei and 
Why [Miracles Have Been Accomplished Through Them. 

Vibrations are real whether uttered or silent. A thought 
does not lose its power when spoken. A hypocrite's prayer 
avails nothing, either when silent or uttered. Why? Be- 
bause it does not come from the heart or soul - it is only a 
thought without any life. 

When in the attitude of prayer, one is concentrated and 
receptive at the same time, and an earnest petition of love 
sent upward to the Love Throne or Hierarchy of Love, 
WILL draw them to the petitioner. It is for this reason 
that prayer may become very powerful, and when a true, 
faithful priest, who may himself be an Adept, mingles the 
voice of his whole Soul with that of the truly penitent, 
there is a Force created which is extremely powerful. 

It is not that a past sin is forgiven, for "as we sow so 
shall we reap," but it is that a new condition is created, a 
new plane is reached, new vibrations are set in motion and 
the penitent, if earnest and sincere, comes into touch with 
a new and higher Hierarchy. 

All real power is of the Soul, although Mind was the 
builder of the Soul. All is vibration set in motion by the 
mind. The most compact, solid thing ever produced by 
the hands of man was formed by the thought forces or 
vibrations of his Mind. When the idea began to unfold 
he began to speak them or they never would have materi- 
alized in object or form. It is thus with all things made by 



100 CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 

man. 

All true prayer is harmonious, is elevating, and brings 
desired returns if the vibrations are strong enough. The 
hypocrite never really prays.he simply utters thoughts that 
have formed in the mind for the purpose of show. Such 
a prayer is not from the heart and soul. It is, therefore, 
only surface prayer — it is artificial. Some teachers tell you 
much of the two minds — the Conscious and the Sub-Con- 
scious. There is but One Mind. What is called the sub- 
conscious mind is the Universal Mind, the Creating Mind. 
We are all manifestation of the Invisible Mind. We are 
all composed of that Mind. The Divine Mind is Vibration 
or Currents, both Positive and Negative, and we are Vi- 
brations and Currents formed by Divine Mind. 

Some say that we are a THOUGHT — "God Thought 
of Us and We Are Heie." We know that a thought is a 
vibration, that it produces a vibration. Just as the thought 
of man precedes the formation of the object thought, so 
did man follow the Thought of God. 

The Law of Sex, which is the Highest Law of the Uni- 
versal, is entirely composed of Positive and Negative prin- 
ciples. The earth does not hold any heat apart from that 
which it receives from the Sun. It is the RECEPTIVE 
principle. It receives the Light and Heat from the Sun's 
rays or vibrations and concentrates and accumulates, and 
transfers each vibration into the rocks, the sands, the blades 
of grass, the flowers, etc., according to the receptive prin- 
ciple of each. 

Every Vibration or Current attracts its own. Hence good 



CHRISTHOOD AND ADEPTSHIP. 101 

thoughts accumulate together, and dwell together on a 
plane apart from other planes. Thus the Power of True 
Prayer. This Is the Secret of Prayer. Peace attracts har- 
mony and rest. It attracts and inducts any of its vibra- 
tions or principles into any other vibration that becomes 
receptive to it or attains to its plane. 

Receptivity is not relaxation of body, mus;ks and mind. 
It is not negation. 

To become receptive to good and harmony we must rid 
ourselves of inharmonious thoughts, feelings and actions, 
and become harmonious and good to a certain degree. 

The greater the degree the more of the good we receive. 

The receptive mind is really a positive mind, for it works 
CONSCIOUSLY and with positive object in view. It 
gives because it expects to receive. // Simply Exchanges. 

To be truly receptive is to be positive towards evil and 
on a level or plane or Hierarchy cf good. When we at- 
tain this condition we are in harmony with the vibrations 
of good. 

For instance, we desire knowledge, wisdom, goodness 
and truth. To become able to receive these we must LIFT 
ourselves up to that plane. All the knowledge, goodness 
and truth has been stored on that plane or in that Hier- 
archy and will always be stored there. We can come into 
touch with it if we wish, if we TRY. 

It does nut flow DOWN into the minds and souls of 
men. We must LIFT themselves up to it by conscien- 
tiously concentrating and ridding ourselves of impure vi- 
brations, for we are composed of the vibrations of the 
thoughts we think. 

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for 25c. 

THE EGYPTIAN PUBLISHING CO., 

Richland Center, Pennsylvania. 






DEC 28 1910 



One copy del. to Cat. Div. 
9 fS 



